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>
> From: "Ralph Smeets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > With 90% of the population that doesn't even hear the difference between
> > an FM broadcast and a CD, I bet that's not a big problem.
>
> I beg to differ, but given a good strong signal and no perceptible
> interference, a VHF FM stereo broadcast could well be superior quality
> to an MD recording. I am of course assuming the station does not do
> stupid things like compress the amplitude to make the music sound louder
> so as to grab the attention of more listeners. [On medium-wave AM some
> compression would be acceptable to me, especially at night when the band
> changes from a few dozen miles range to a couple of thousand miles and
> some 2 megawatt blaster in russia is doing quite well at making a small
> local station five miles away become unlistenable].
>
> I can't remember whether the VHF FM multipex filter is 18khz or 22khz,
> but either way with a good aerial and a really strong signal, and of
> course a damn good tuner, my thoughts are it could beat MD quality. Of
> course most people listen to the radio on, well a radio, not their hifi
> seperates and then MD will almost certainly be better.
>
> PrinceGaz.
I don't know for the UK, but in the Netherlands the highest frequency of a
signal passed through the FM 'encoding-decoding' fase, is 15kHz. Ie, the
highes are gone.... (at least for me!)
Cheers,
Ralph -> Gaz, are you one of the 90%?
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